Posted on 05/24/2017 3:58:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
President Obama’s ex-intelligence chiefs admit they limited input into the Russia-gate “assessment,” which was handled by “hand-picked” analysts, raising the specter of politicized intelligence ___ At the center of the Russia-gate scandal is a curious U.S. intelligence “assessment” that was pulled together in less than a month and excluded many of the agencies that would normally weigh in on such an important topic as whether Russia tried to influence the outcome of a U.S. presidential election.
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The Jan. 6 report and its allegation that Russia “hacked” Democratic emails and publicized them through WikiLeaks have been treated as gospel by the mainstream U.S. media and many politicians of both parties, but two senior Obama administration intelligence officials have provided new information that raises fresh doubts about the findings.
On Tuesday, former CIA Director John Brennan told the House Intelligence Committee that only four of the 17 U.S. intelligence agencies took part in the assessment, relying on analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the oversight of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Brennan said the report “followed the general model of how you want to do something like this with some notable exceptions. It only involved the FBI, NSA and CIA as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It wasn’t a full inter-agency community assessment that was coordinated among the 17 agencies, and for good reason because of the nature and the sensitivity of the information trying, once again, to keep that tightly compartmented.”
But Brennan’s excuse about “tightly compartmented” information was somewhat disingenuous because other intelligence agencies, such as the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), could have been consulted in a limited fashion, based on their areas of expertise. For instance, INR could have weighed in on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would have taken the risk of trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign, knowing that – if she won as expected and learned of the operation – she might have sought revenge against him and his country.
Kind of like "96% of climate scientists agree that AGW is real."
The scientists who don't agree are simply declared to be "not climate scientists."
It's also like the way car ads always say things like "the new Pelican has the most cargo space of any car in its class."
The Democrats have perpetrated a huge fraud. They’ve been slandering and leaking... people need to go to jail.
Steve you got that wrong. It was the DNC server that Crowdstrike was called in on, and Comey let it be, and did not direct a separate FBI investigation.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/fbi-russia-hacking-dnc-crowdstrike/
The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that top Kremlin officials are behind the hack of the DNC and other Democratic organizations to influence the elections
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/statements/2016/10/18/clinton-campaign-statement-on-donald-trumps-comments-on-meeting-with-putin/
The U.S. intelligence community on Friday accused Russia of interfering
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/06/intelligence-community-says-putin-ordered-campaign-to-influence-election-denigrate-clinton.html
The entire intelligence community, in fact, is now in alignment that the hacks were partly motivated to try and install Trump as president.
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/16/505890551/fbi-cia-agree-that-russia-was-trying-to-help-trump-win-the-election
“Our intelligence community just came out and said in the last few days that the Kremlin, meaning Putin and the Russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking on American accounts to influence our election,” Clinton said.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/10/clinton-claims-putins-hackers-are-punting-for-trump/
Yes, 17 intelligence agencies really did say Russia was behind hacking
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/21/17-intelligence-agencies-russia-behind-hacking/92514592/
Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved Russian cyber attacks aimed at interfering with last year’s presidential election motivated by “a clear preference” for Donald Trump, according to a newly declassified study by the US intelligence community.
https://www.ft.com/content/5c0440e9-5d55-3547-bdc8-dd777bd4b4ba
Except the intelligence community did no such thing.
No questions about Mexico interferring, meddling, buying the Clintons and half of the GOP 2016 candidates and voting illegally in our elections?
EVERY Trey Gowdy Question To John Brennan On Russia Interference In 2016 Elections 5 23 17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJMgqVSKCc
The reorg should be Mateao or whatever his name is directly over services managers the rest are fired.
The reorg should be pompeo directly over services managers the rest are fired.
What is so disheartening is that the FBI and the CIA under Obama are so wrongfully politicized that we miss the Orlando killer and the Boston Marathon killers.
As Arte Johnson was wont to say, "verrry interesting". The original meme when they were claiming collusion by the Trump campaign was that all 17 agencies were in on it and in agreement....
“We have 17, 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyber attacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin. And they are designed to influence our election. I find that deeply disturbing.”
- Hillary Clinton, Presidential Debate, Oct. 19, 2016, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Yep.
They’d rather be chasing political opponents than ferreting out terrorists. Too bad our government doesn’t have our backs. But it is better we know where their true priories lie
Yep - the hits to their credibility are devastating and they keep doubling down....
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